You should also be aware that almost none of us have air conditioning: our peak energy demand is very definitely in these cold winter snaps, not in summer for cooling.

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"Absolutely not, " snaps Sam N.

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The tradition is referred to as "drinking snaps, " and it is not for the faint of heart.

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"It's not telecommunications anymore, " he snaps.

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In the blitz of light which followed, James our giant Aussie cameraman picked up his own video camera and blasted 250 watts of power back in their faces, to the cheers of the restaurant users not employed in the pursuit of celebrity snaps.

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So the ice over military ties may not thaw as easily as in previous cold snaps.

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SnapLogic has gone to great lengths to make sure that its Snaps can be used my normal end-users, not just by the technically sophisticated.

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The J1 offers a few unique slow motion modes as well, though, including a bizarrely wide 8:3 (think 16:6, not 16:9) slow motion mode that snaps up to five seconds of 640 x 240-pixel video at 400 fps, played back at 29.97 fps.

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Since snaps disappear seconds after they are opened, users feel comfortable sending spontaneous and personal messages that they would not want ingrained into digital histories.

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In theory, ginger-containing products such as ginger ale, ginger snaps, and other products could reduce nausea, too, but only if they contained real ginger root, not just ginger flavoring.

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